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to pvc or ductile. Properties in areas with known high groundwater levels will be preferred as well. It is not known how many properties will volunteer but the preference would be to have at least twenty in hot spot areas of the City. A televising contractor was contacted to get pricing for the service. Televising costs $145 per hour if the line doesn't need to be pre - cleaned. If the line needs to he pre - cleaned the cost is $145 per hour of cleaning and then $80 for televising. The contractor normally charges a two -hour minimum but said if the City is putting a program together and paying for it then they can set up an efficient schedule that will allow them to televise more services and charge just $145 per service. Other contractors will be contacted as well to see if there are more favorable pricing options, hut the $145 per hour range should be a good ballpark figure to start with. Televising twenty services without pre - cleaning would cost $2900. Forty services would cost $5800. If any pre - cleaning is necessary the costs will increase a minimum of $80 per service that required cleaning. The difficult part is knowing whether or not a service needs to be pre - cleaned. Staff recommends the City Council authorize up to $10,000 to be used for televising sewer services. Once the televising is completed staff and the City Council can put a plan together for the next steps. This would be a starting point in the process. A policy will have to be made to determine how repairs will be made and how they will be funded. Many cities require the property owners to repair the service laterals at their expense and others have a cost share program. There are communities that have determined individual service I &I is significant enough to require service lining or repair. However, the timing and method for investigating service 1 &I and how any service repair work is paid for varies from City to City. The process outlined above is our recommendation on how to obtain a general determination if individual service line I &1 is an issue within our sanitary sewer system. Based on the findings, it may be necessary for Staff and the City Council to develop a policy for locating and repairing leaking services and how such improvements should be funded. After the completion of the service televising Staff will report on the findings and what steps may he warranted moving forward. It should also be noted that staff is working on plans to inspect the sewer systems in the mobile home parks in the City to determine if they may be contributing to the I &1 problem. The North Star Estates is built on suspect soils near Ryan Industrial Park, and the manager of the complex has found had joints in the past when he has made repairs. Access to the system may be problematic but metering may be a possibility. A report on the mobile home park sewer systems will he forthcoming.